[FONT="] Before the acting bug bit, she wanted to be an opera singer.
[/FONT][FONT="]Howard Hughes’s uncle, Felix Hughes, was her singing teacher.
[/FONT][FONT="]Her first showbiz job: saying “Parkay!” in a radio commercial.
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[FONT="] She was christened Betty, not Elizabeth, because her mother didn’t want her to get nicknames.
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[FONT="] Her mother later nicknamed her “Bets.”
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[FONT="] “I had lots of friends, but I could send them all home and keep the two I liked best: Tess and Horace,” she wrote of her parents in Here We Go Again.[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT="]Howard Hughes’s uncle, Felix Hughes, was her singing teacher.
[/FONT][FONT="]Her first showbiz job: saying “Parkay!” in a radio commercial.
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[FONT="] She was christened Betty, not Elizabeth, because her mother didn’t want her to get nicknames.
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[FONT="] Her mother later nicknamed her “Bets.”
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[FONT="] “I had lots of friends, but I could send them all home and keep the two I liked best: Tess and Horace,” she wrote of her parents in Here We Go Again.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]She was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1995.
[/FONT][FONT="]Betty quote: “I am not into the animal rights issue; I am totally dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all animals.”
[/FONT][FONT="]All seven seasons of The Golden Girls will begin streaming on Hulu on February 13.[/FONT]
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[/FONT][FONT="]Betty quote: “I am not into the animal rights issue; I am totally dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all animals.”
[/FONT][FONT="]All seven seasons of The Golden Girls will begin streaming on Hulu on February 13.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]White is a self-professed Trekkie.
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[FONT="] Betty quote: “I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that — and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones — I think it’s fine if they want to get married. I don’t know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.”
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[FONT="]Her favorite adult beverage: vodka.[/FONT]
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[FONT="] Betty quote: “I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that — and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones — I think it’s fine if they want to get married. I don’t know how people can get so anti-something. Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.”
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[FONT="]Her favorite adult beverage: vodka.[/FONT]
[FONT="]She has starred in three TV series named [/FONT]The Betty White Show[FONT="]: one a sitcom, one a variety show, and one a daytime talk show.
[/FONT][FONT="]Grab a tissue: Betty White tells the sweet story of her courtship with third husband Allen Ludden:
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[/FONT][FONT="]Grab a tissue: Betty White tells the sweet story of her courtship with third husband Allen Ludden:
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White and Ludden met in 1961 on Password, the game show he hosted, and on which she guest starred.
The couple was married by the same judge who married Mary Tyler Moore and her former husband Grant Tinker, Ludden’s best friend.
Mary Tyler Moore, Grant Tinker, Betty White, and Allen Ludden
The couple was married by the same judge who married Mary Tyler Moore and her former husband Grant Tinker, Ludden’s best friend.
Mary Tyler Moore, Grant Tinker, Betty White, and Allen Ludden
[FONT="] White and Ludden guest starred on the classic 1972 “Password” episode of The Odd Couple in which Felix and Oscar compete on Password.[/FONT]
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The Luddens were friends with Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and his wife, as well as The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and his wife, and Fred Astaire and his sister and dance partner, Adele.[/FONT]
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White never remarried after Ludden’s 1981 death from stomach cancer. “Once you’ve had the best, who needs the rest?” she once told Larry King.[/FONT]
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. She was 63 when The Golden Girls debuted.[/FONT]
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She graduated from Beverly Hills High School. In 1939.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Miley Cyrus has nothing on Betty White.
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The Luddens were friends with Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and his wife, as well as The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and his wife, and Fred Astaire and his sister and dance partner, Adele.[/FONT]
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White never remarried after Ludden’s 1981 death from stomach cancer. “Once you’ve had the best, who needs the rest?” she once told Larry King.[/FONT]
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. She was 63 when The Golden Girls debuted.[/FONT]
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She graduated from Beverly Hills High School. In 1939.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Miley Cyrus has nothing on Betty White.
White didn’t have biological children of her own, but helped raise Ludden’s two daughters and a son.
Betty won a 1983 Daytime Emmy for hosting the game show Just Men! in which female contestants tried to predict answers to questions asked of male celebrities.
She remains the only female to win an Emmy as best game show host.
Though Sue Ann Nivens is one of the most memorable Mary Tyler Moore Show characters, White didn’t join the cast until Season 4.
White co-starred with Bob Newhart in the short-lived 1992-93 CBS sitcom Bob, where her son was played by Angie Tribeca star Jere Burns.
She played God, on the short-lived NBC sitcom Save Me.
She tweets.
She played another Biblical figure: Eve, to Johnny Carson’s Adam, on a 1979 episode of The Tonight Show.
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